A short introduction to the Drupal Panels module. This version was for the 2014 NYCCamp training session..

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Mastering Panels and Page Manager
Six Mile Tech
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Ted Bowman
Drupal Trainer and Developer

2. Beginning Drupal 7
Mastering Panels and Page Manager
Ted Bowman
twitter - @tedbow
drupal.org – tedbow
www.sixmiletech.com

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Powerful Tools for Displaying Content
Mastering Panels and Page Manager

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What is Page Manager?
 Part of the Chaos tool suite (ctools)
– required by Views, Features, WYSIWYG, etc.
 Handles delivering different pages to menu
requests

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What is Panels?
 Allows a site administrator to create
customized layouts for multiple uses
 Drag and Drop content manager

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Panels Modules
Panels
 Core Display functions, required by all others
Mini panels
 Creates Drupal Blocks with Panels layouts
Panels Nodes
 Create nodes that are divided into areas with selectable
content - (@see Panelizer)
Panels In-Place Editor
 Front-end Panels UI

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Other Related CTools Modules
Views content panes
 Embeds Views in Panels
Custom content panes
 Allows Manually Enter Content in Panels
Stylizer
 Create custom styles for Panels

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Demo Site Modules
 Page Manager
 Panels
 Views content panes

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Panels Terminology
Panels Page
 Encompasses the Whole Page
 Either
– Custom Page – new URL
– Overridden System Page
● node/[nid]
● user/[uid]
● node/[nid]/edit

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Panels Terminology
Panel
 Container of Content
 Each Panels Pages contains 1 or more
 Contains Panes

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Panels Terminology
Pane
 Container of Content
 Examples
– Node
– Field
– View
 Can be Dragged and Dropped Between Panels

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Panels Page

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Panels

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Panes

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Panels Backend

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Panels Terminology
Variants
 Different Content and Layout for 1 Panel Page
 Examples
– Different Node View for different Content
types
– Landing page that is different depending on
the role of view user

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Panels Terminology
Contexts
 NOT the Module
 Represent Drupal Objects: Nodes, Terms,
Users, etc.
 Display on in Panes
 or Control what is displayed

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Panels Terminology
Contexts - example
 Node View Page
– Default Context Created by nid
– Term related to the node
– User: Author of the node

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Example Site
News Site
 Simple News
site

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Content Types
 Articles
– Category
– Tags
– Show (Entityreference)
 Show

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Users
 Blogger
 Profile2
 Watching(Field Collection)
 Author(Entity Reference → User)

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Roles
 Administrator
●
 Blogger
–

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Mastering Panels and Page Manager
Ted Bowman
twitter - @tedbow
drupal.org – tedbow
www.sixmiletech.com